Galba schirazensis
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| a live Galba schirazensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymnaeinae |
| Genus: | Galba |
| Species: | G. schirazensis |
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Galba schirazensis (Küster, 1862) |
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Limnaeus Schirazensis Küster, 1862 |
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Limnaeus Schirazensis Küster, 1862
Lymnaea schirazensis Küster, 1862
Galba schirazensis is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
This species was originally described by German malacologist Heinrich Carl Küster. Although text description was in 1863 and figure description in 1862, the year 1862 prevails (according to the article 12.2.7 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) because the name was already correctly cited in the figure legends of the 1862 plate.
The specific name schirazensis is based on the name of the Iranian city Shiraz, which is the type locality for this species.
Morphological, anatomical and phylogenetic analyses performed by Bargues et al. (2011) confirmed that this species belong to the Galba/Fossaria group. According to the same study, Galba schirazensis was previously an overlooked cryptic species, which had generally been confused with the very similar species Galba truncatula.
According to the 2012 IUCN Red List, the native distribution of Galba schirazensis includes: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Russian Federation.
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